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Unable to set iPython to use 2.6.1 Python

Answer 1

+1 A:

you should have a python, python2.5 and python2.6, is that correct? If you wan't to use python2.6 system wide the symple solution would be to sym link (ln -s ..) python to python2.6 instead of python2.5

hhafez 2009-03-13 03:25:37

I run the following $ln -s python python2.6, but $ python does not open Python2.6.

Masi 2009-03-13 14:31:24

you got it the the wrong way around you need to do $ln -s /full/path/to/python2.6 /full/path/to/python/full/path/to needs to be replaced with the real path name for where the python2.6 is installed (by default /opt/local/bin/ if you installed it with macports)

hhafez 2009-03-13 22:42:16

Answer 2

+2 A:

A good way to get it to work is here. I needed to restart my terminal before ipython pointed to python2.6. Note the latest ipython distribution is 0.10, not 0.9.

Arthur Edelstein 2010-03-11 06:08:52

This answer is correct. The accepted answer is just a hack that doesn't address the problem.

chryss 2010-08-21 10:06:15

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